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Victorian Railways streamlined 3-cylinder S class 4-6-2 Pacific No. 302 'Edward Henty' departing Spencer Street, Melbourne with the ‘Spirit of Progress' - the first all steel, streamlined air-conditioned train in the Southern Hemisphere and British Empire. 📷 Victorian Railways.

Departamento Nacional de Estradas de Ferro (DNEF) 242N class metre gauge 4-8-4 Northern No. 242 N12 (GESLA, 1952) at Campinas, São Paulo soon after delivery. A French design by Andre Chapelon but too sophisticated for Brasil.

Ferrovie Dello Stato (Italian State Railways) 625 class 2-6-0 Prairie No. 625-098 paused at Bordighera on the Italian Riviera on 5th October 1927 - Edited. (Denver Public Library OP-20602) 📷Otto Perry

Hartford & Connecticut Western No. 18, a Rogers 4-4-0 steams alongside the Mad River into West Winsted, Connecticut on 21st December 1883. A rare wet plate photograph of 19th century action.📷 K.T. Sheldon.

Pennsylvania Railroad T-1 class 4-4-4-4 'Duplex' No. 5523 (Altoona, 1946 ) at East St. Louis, Illinois, 11th February 1949. Raymond Loewy designed the streamlining. The T-1 could pull a 16 car, 1200 ton passenger train at 100 mph. 📷Robert J. Foster (Edited).

New Zealand Railways streamlined J class 4-8-2 in the loop with southbound mixed at Waiouru, highest station on the North Island Main Trunk, crossing a northbound mixed in the winter of 1940. Mount Ruapehu looms in the background. (N.Z. Herald Heritage Images).

Chemins de fer de l'État (ETAT) 2-4-0 No. 2752 'Lencloitre' (Schneider et Cie, 1898), one of only four of these ‘windcutters’, probably at Paris-La Villette depot circa 1910. (P. Mérard collection).

Canadian Pacific Railway T1a class 2-10-4 Selkirk No. 5905 (Montreal, 1929) at Field, BC circa 1936. Exerting 89,200lbs of tractive effort and weighing 335 tons, they were the biggest locomotives in the British Empire but the girls are oblivious as they walk past. 📷G.H. Soole.

New York Central J3a class 4-6-4 Hudson No. 5450, Art Deco streamlined by Henry Dreyfuss, waiting departure at La Salle St station, Chicago with first eastbound ‘20th Century Limited’ in July 1938. (Sirman collection).

Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Ouest (CF de l’Ouest) 4-cylinder compound 4-6-0 departing Gare de Saint-Lazare with a 17 car Paris suburban in September 1927. (Denver Public Library OP-20564). Any more details? 📷Otto Perry

Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (PLM) 230C class 4-cylinder compound 4-6-0 No. 13 (Société Franco-Belge, 1913) at Paris Gare de Lyon in September 1927. (Denver Public Library OP-20560). 📷 Otto Perry

Ferrovie Dello Stato (FS) 551 class 2,680hp, three-phase 3,600v electric locomotives Nos. 551-123 & 551-164 at Pistoia on 12th October 1927. Various manufacturers built 183 units from 1921-25. (Denver Public Library OP-20584). 📷 Otto Perry.

Cоветские железные дороги (CЖД - CZD Soviet Railways) ША (Sha) class 2-8-0 No. 193 (Alco, 1943 as S160 class of the US Army Transportation Corps). Photographed on the October Railway after delivery. Some 2,100 of these engines went to 20 nations in WW2.

Southern Pacific (Texas & New Orleans) P-13 class 4-6-2 Pacific No. 625 (Baldwin, 1928) departing El Paso, Texas at 10 mph with Train No.1, the ‘Sunset Limited’ of ten cars on 20th April 1933. (Denver Public Library OP-15770). 📷 Otto Perry

AB Aerotransport (Swedish Airlines) Northrop Delta 1C, SE-ADI 'Halland' at the opening of Stavanger-Sola airport, Norway in May 1937. Pilot Karl Gunnar Lindner and Norwegian aviator Viggo Widerøe shaking hands.📷 AB Aerotransport.

Ferrovie Dello Stato (FS) 670 class 4-cylinder compound, coal burning Cab-Forward 4-6-0 No. 670-007 (Società Italiana Ernesto Breda, 1902) at Bologna, 13th October 1927. One of 43 built 1900-1906. (Denver Public Library OP-20584).📷 Otto Perry

Navigazione Gernerale Italiana 51,062 grt liner SS Rex (G. Ansaldo & Co, 1931) being docked in New York by three tugs in 1939. She held the Blue Riband 1933-35, and recorded the highest average speed in regular North Atlantic service. 📷André Kertész.